Antennae Drill

Purpose: To quicken the reaction time of your defense to balls hit off of a block.

Setup: Line up 5 or 6 antennas along the net (about 4 - 8 inches apart) in your right front position. On the other side have a tosser, setter, and a line of outside hitters. On the defensive side have a left front, left back, middle back and right back.

1. Tosser tosses to Setter who sets to Outside Hitter.

2. The outside hitters attack against the line of antennas, thus creating a situation similar to balls coming off of a block. The defense should start in their base positions and release to defensive assignments once the ball is set.

You may put a plus or minus 5 points scoring system, or give the defense a goal of 5 playable balls dug. If the attackers put the ball away with no one touching the ball it is minus one. Once the defense reaches plus or minus 5 points, switch new players into the drill. You may modify this drill by putting the antennas in different places along the net and by having the defense play the ball out.

http://volleyball.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=volleyball&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fvolleyballcoaching.net%2F